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Scaling routing and traffic engineering for the AI era
As network operators face AI-driven traffic growth, stricter SLAs, and pressure to scale efficiently, Flex-Algo is emerging as a practical way to deliver differentiated network services. Ciena’s Jahanzeb Baqai explains how this can be accomplished without requiring rip-and-replace of existing infrastructure or adding complexity through external controllers.
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Rethinking IP transport for AI-driven growth
AI is entering a new phase, and it is changing what service providers need from their networks. Ciena’s Chuck Harris explores how AI is driving new requirements across IP transport networks, accelerating the need for modernization, and highlights three practical approaches for building a more scalable, automated, and AI-ready IP transport network.
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Episode 97: Building AI-Ready Networks — From India to the Rest of the World
Lightstorm’s Vinay V. joins Ciena’s Gautam Billa to discuss how the Asia-Pacific connectivity provider is scaling to meet surging hyperscaler, neoscaler, and AI-driven demand, leveraging MOFN, NaaS, and operating at AI speed.
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Data center out-of-band management
In this video, discover how our data center out-of-band management (DCOM) solution, powered by XGS-PON technology, transforms OOB into a resilient fiber-based PON architecture designed to simplify deployment and support growth.
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Reducing operational drag in multi-vendor and multi-generation networks
Explore how AI-enabled process automation and cross-domain coordination improve operations in multi-vendor, multi-generation networks.
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AI is everywhere. But its value only flows where networks can carry it.
AI is scaling beyond the data center into distributed inference across clouds and the...
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Ciena and Meta achieve world record 800 Gb/s across 16,608 km on transpacific submarine cable
As AI-driven demand accelerates, Ciena and Meta have set a new world record — achievi...
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Waveserver E-Series: Cost-Efficient Multi-Service Transport for the Edge
Ciena’s Waveserver E-Series platforms are simple-to-deploy edge demarcation devices e...
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Demo of industry's first 1.6 Tb/s coherent solution
Ciena's Heng Foo describes live demonstration of the world's first 1.6Tb/s coherent s...
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AIOps with Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite
This video shows how Navigator Network Control Suite provides AI-driven insights to h...
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Chalk Talk: Programmable photonics, get more capacity and resiliency from your open line system
Ciena’s photonics expert David Boertjes explains how Ciena’s programmable photonics e...
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